THE

HISTORY AND ORIGIN

OF THE

MISSIONARY SOCIETIES,

CONTAINING FAITHFUL ACCOUNTS OF THE

VOYAGES, TRAVELS, LABOURS, AND SUCCESSES

ОР

THE VARIOUS MISSIONARIES

Who have been sent out, for the purpose of Evangelizing the Heathen, and other
unenlightened Nations, in different Parts of

THE HABITABLE GLOBE.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENT'S,
INCLUDING THE LATEST DISCOVERIES,

4. AND EMBRACING

MANY VALUABLE AND CURIOUS FACTS,

CONNECTED WITH THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL.

THE WHOLe forming A NEW And complETE

Missionary Repository.

Illustrated and Embellished with numerous highly interesting Engravings, from
Original Drawings, made expressly for this Work.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS SMITH,

Minister of Trinity Chapel, Leather Lane, Holborn; Editor of a New and Complete
Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, &c. &c.

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The Plan and Object of the History of the Missionary Societies having been submitted to us, we beg leave most cordially to recommend it to the attention of the Religious Public, considering it highly calcu lated to extend the interest which is already felt on behalf of these important institutions.

GEORGE BURDER.

JOHN CAMPBELL.

JOHN CLAYTON, JUN. A.M.
ALEX. FLETCHER, A.M.
ROWLAND HILL, A.M.
JOSEPH IVIMEY.

C. LATROBE.

JOHN RYLAND, D.D.
JOHN STYLES, D.D.
ALEX. WAUGH, D.D.
MATTHEW WILKS.

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